Profiling your Shiny app

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2019

The profvis package provides tools for helping you to understand how R spends its time. It provides a interactive graphical interface for visualizing data from Rprof, R’s built-in tool for collecting profiling data.

The profvis homepage provides an extensive instructions for working with this package, as well as an example on specifically profiling a Shiny app.

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For more on this topic, see the following resources:

Faster Shiny apps with profiling tools


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